Roman hair net, dated to the 1st century CE. It is made of braided golden wires. [720×468]September 21, 2024
Chinese newspaper composing room from the nineteen-twenties using “hot type” typesetting. The compositors reputedly walked 3 miles to typeset a single page. Photo by Paul Hutchinson, published circa 1927 by National Geographic. Shared on X by @chinarhyming [1955 x 745]September 21, 2024
The Harbaville Triptych is a 10th century CE Byzantine ivory triptych with a Deesis and other saints, now in the Louvre. It is regarded as the finest and best-preserved of the “Romanos group” of ivories from a workshop in Constantinople, probably closely connected with the Imperial Court [1293×2394]September 21, 2024
In 2015, an 80-meter-long belyana that caught fire some 350 years ago and was abandoned by its crew, was found in the Vetluga river in Russia. Belyanas were among the largest wooden ships ever built, with the largest ones being up to 120 metres long with a load capacity up to 12,800 tons [1100×1470]September 21, 2024
The leather collar of Peter the Wild Boy. Peter was found living wild in the Hertswold Forest by a party of hunters led by King George I while on a visit to his Hanover homeland and brought to Britain in 1726 by order of his daughter-in-law Caroline of Ansbach, the Princess of Wales [1110×1862]September 21, 2024
Bronze busts from the Villa of the Papyri, depicting clockwise from top left: Dionysus or Plato, Pythagoras, Ptolemy Apion and Hesiod or Aristophanes. The Villa was considered to be one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and in the Roman world [5030×7795]September 21, 2024
Minamoto no Yoshinaka and his warriors confront the Giant White Monkey of Mount Kiso. Triptych print by Utagawa Yoshikazu. Japan, Edo period, 1853 [8150×4000]September 21, 2024
Bronze wine vessel with animal shaped lid. China, Shang dynasty, 1200-1100 BC [1000×1075]September 21, 2024
Chess pieces carved from walrus ivory. Franz Josef Land, Eskimo peoples, around 1885 [1800×980]September 21, 2024
Bronze helmet of the “Illyrian-type” with a gold mask from the Sindos cemetery, made at the end of the 6th century BCE and now located at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (3024×4032) [OC]September 20, 2024
Photos of the Mikvah at the Synagogue of Water in Úbeda, Spain (Joaquín Fruiz/ via JTA)[2048 x 1138]September 20, 2024
